28 28 Page 28 By Frank Giorno The North America Mining Expo will host the frst electric vehicle bat tery in conference in Sudbury one of the leading areas that produce min erals required for its manufacturing The conference is hosted by Modern Mining and T echnology Sudbury Sudbury and Northern Ontario is an area rich in nickel cobalt graphite lithium talc and magnesium all com ponents required to build elec tric ve hicle batteries On September 12 and 13th the North America Mining Expo will host two days of electric battery conference bringing together mining industry leaders and bringing you up to speed on the strategie s and techniqu es that are driving the industry forward All aspects of the supply chai n from mineral exploration extraction smelting refning to battery manu facturing will be considered Speakers are being confrmed they will include visionaries from the top mining compa nies This unmatched educational opportunity will bring you hardhitting topics crucial to un derstanding this exciting new devel Sudbury hosts frst Electric V ehicle Battery Supply Chain confer ence at the 2018 NAME Sept 1213 opment Northern Ontario is primed to provide the minerals required to produce efec tive and longlasting EV batteries for the immediate production needs and longrange developments Mining for battery elements is now a major priority in the mining feld for nickel cobalt lithium and graphite magnesiumtalc rare earth elements and there are several of each mineral in the Sudbury T immins Sault Ste Marie area as well as North Bay and Kapuskasing Companies such as V ale and Glen core s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Op eration are expanding their capacity to produce nickel to meet the growing demand from the electric vehicle bat tery industry V ale a major international Brazilian mining company with mines in Sud bury could beneft from producing two crucial components for EVs cobalt and nickel V ale is a leading producer of nickel and cobalt Cobalt which is valued in the current production of EV batteries has led to the intensifcation of exploration programs around Cobalt and Gowganda According to Gino Chitaroni of Poly met in Cobalt the area has seen a signifcant increase in mining claims from Ontario based exploration com panies and some as far as Australia who are staking properties near Co balt which despite its name was al ways a major silver mining district but cobalt was a byproduct of silver mining Prospecting for cobalt is also occurring in and around Gowganda Several graphite mines are being de veloped along the Highway 17 from the Renfrew area to North Bay and in Kapuskasing T immins has an operat ing talc mine Imerys and plenty of magnesium deposits to provide those components T oday in 2018 ener gy storage is key to truly realize the full potential of renewable ener gy technologies and batteries are the most important com ponent of ener gy storage Every ma jor car manufac turer has elect ric mod els and that market grew 40 in 2017 There are currently many ele ctric ve hicles on the road today where there were virtually none 10 years ago The roundup of the Battery Metals Contd on pg 30 Page 28 F r ee WiFi at the North Americ a Mining Expo br ought t o y ou by REDLINES PRIV A TE INDUSTRIAL i LT E NETW ORKS F OR SURF A CE AND UNDERGROUND MINING Page 29 F r ee WiFi at the North Americ a Mining Expo br ought t o y ou by REDLINES PRIV A TE INDUSTRIAL i LT E NETW ORKS F OR SURF A CE AND UNDERGROUND MINING